An email from LD dated Monday 11/2/1998 : “…in my mind, it’s sort of that revolting up-tempo country piano bar sing-along thing, because it’s just so hateful and nasty and gay and evil that it deserves to be desperately, frighteningly catchy!”
Well...I transported the “country” to the UK or somewhere in Europe, using the tuba to create the chord sequence and suggest the melody, which I still don’t exactly understand how I did that. Then, we had one hell of a day “wrangling” our many friends to come in to the studio and bring the entire piece together. It was quite the adventure, and when we were finished, we were crying our eyes out…from laughter, of course – CRX
from
Never Again (a compendium),
released November 10, 2010
Music by: Chris Xefos
Lyrics by: LD Beghtol (Nice Boys Music/ASCAP)
Chris Xefos – Tuba, lead & background vocals
LD Beghtol – Lead vocal
Dave Licht – Drums
Stephin Merritt – Ukulele, washboard, spring, background vocal
Lorin Sklamberg – Accordion, lead & background vocals
Frank London – Peck horn, cornet, horn arrangement
Claudia Gonson – Lead & background vocals
Joey Defilipps – Lead vocal
Kim Rancourt – Lead vocal
“Drunken” crowd vocals and miscellaneous solo vocal punctuations provided by: John Ashfield, Aldervan Daly, Chuck Fiorello, Andrew Friedman, Daniel Handler, James Jacobs, Alison Faith Levy, Lisa Levy & Melissa Newman
Recorded at Magnetic Recording by Chris Xefos and Motherwest NYC by Charles Newman
Mixed at Motherwest NYC by Charles Newman